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Hyderabad: Forest, environment and endowments minister Konda Surekha is once again under scrutiny following allegations of attempted extortion involving her former OSD N Sumanth. The minister, who has been at the centre of multiple controversies over the past year, had previously been let off by the party leadership with a warning to maintain decorum in public. However, the latest episode has prompted the AICC to step in and seek a detailed report.The AICC has reportedly asked Meenakshi Nataraja ...Read More >
Gulchain Singh Charak, former minister and president of Dogra Sadar Sabha J&K, who spearheaded the campaign for preservation of Mubarak Mandi Heritage Complex, passed away on Friday, at the age of 83, after a prolonged illness . He is survived by his wife Surekha Charak, two sons--Dr Samar Dev Singh Charak, Gambhir Dev Singh Charak and two daughters. "My father passed away due to lung infection. We had shifted him to PGI Chandigarh on August 29 and he was under treatment. However, Charak Sahib ...Read More >
Patna, Oct 18 (PTI) Confusion prevailing in the INDIA bloc showed little signs of let up on Saturday, with just two days to go before the filing of nomination papers for the second and final phase of assembly elections comes to a close. The multi-party coalition, which had of late been blaming its inability to declare a seat-sharing arrangement on the need to "accommodate new allies", was given up on by the JMM, which announced it will go it alone and contest six seats in Bihar. The RJD, which ...Read More >
Patna, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Congress party on Saturday released its second list of five candidates for the ensuing Bihar Assembly elections, even as internal dissent and allegations of irregularities in ticket distribution continue to rock the party. According to an official letter issued from the office of AICC General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal, the Congress has nominated Shaswat Kedar Pandey from Narkatiaganj, Mohammad Qamrul Hoda from Kishanganj, Mohammad Irfan from Kasba, ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Karnataka BJP on Saturday lashed out at the Congress-led government in Karnataka for allegedly targeting the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and its supporters in the state. Charging the Congress-led government for removing RSS banners, flags in Chittapura town in Kalaburagi district, the Leader of the Opposition R. Ashoka questioned, "Is Chittapur in India, or is it the Kharge family's own Republic"? Notably, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge hails fro ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 18 (ANI): As Bihar gears up for Assembly Elections, Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) on Saturday attacked the Mahagathbandhan over reports of Tejashwi Yadav as Bihar's Chief Ministerial candidate, saying even the alliance has not confirmed it. Chirag Paswan met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Patna to discuss strategies for securing key constituencies ahead of the 243-seat Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled for November 6 and 11, with counting o ...Read More >
Zubeen Garg's death in Singapore is under investigation ShowQuick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed * Rahul Gandhi paid tribute to Zubeen Garg at the singer's cremation site in Sonapur * Gandhi recalled seeing Mount Kanchenjunga at age 17 during a mountaineering course in Sikkim * Gandhi linked Zubeen Garg's qualities to the transparent, unshakable nature of Kanchenjunga Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Guwahati: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reca ...Read More >
Guwahati: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and AICC top leader, Rahul Gandhi, arrived in Guwahati today to pay tribute to Assam's legendary music icon Zubeen Garg. Soon after his arrival, he visited the artist's resting place at Sonapur, outskirts of the city, where he offered floral and candle tributes. Later, Gandhi visited the late artist's residence at Kahilipara, where he met Zubeen's wife Garima Saikia Garg and father Kapil Thakur, expressing his heartfelt condolences. During his ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Friday approved a list of 40 star campaigners for the upcoming 71-Nuapada Assembly Constituency by-election in Odisha. The announcement was made by Bhakta Charan Das, President of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC), through an official press release issued on Friday. The list features several prominent national and state-level leaders, including Bhupesh Baghel, Sachin Pilot, Kanhaiya Kumar, A. Revanth Reddy, Mallu Bhatti Vikramar ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Contractors Association (KSCA) on Friday threatened to stop works from December if their pending dues running upto Rs 33,000 crore were not cleared within a month. They also alleged that the commission racket has continued unabated under the Congress regime too. Addressing a press conference, Association President R Manjunath said that despite making several requests and meeting Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah 2-3 times in the last two-and-a-half years since ...Read More >
Sandeep Warrier is general secretary; Palode Ravi gets vice-president post After years of delay, the Congress on Thursday inched closer to wrapping up its organisational reshuffle in Kerala by expanding its political affairs committee (PAC) besides appointing 13 vice-presidents and 58 general secretaries. Sources in the party said the list of secretaries would also be announced in a week or so. Lok Sabha MPs Rajmohan Unnithan, V.K. Sreekandan, and Dean Kuriakose and Pandalam Sudhakaran, C.P. ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: The state Congress was on Thursday abuzz with speculation over the political future of Endowments Minister Konda Surekha, even as she met AICC in-charge for Telangana Meenakshi Natarajan and briefed her on the recent controversies involving her former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) N Sumanth. With the string of controversies surrounding Surekha coming at a politically inconvenient time, discussions in party circles have turned to possible disciplinary action, including her resignation ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 17 (ANI): Amid a political storm in Telangana over the attempt to arrest Minister Konda Surekha, Congress leader and MLA from Waradhanapet constituency KR Nagaraj said on Thursday that the government would act if any wrongdoing was found, asserting that the minister must cooperate with the authorities in the investigation. He stated that the minister should cooperate with the authorities in all police proceedings. Also Read | Who Is Dr Sivaranjani Santosh ...Read More >
While the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) has batted for the Raj Thackeray-led MNS joining the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance in Maharashtra for the upcoming local body elections, the Congress party, a key MVA ally, does not seem to be in favour of joining hands with the MNS, at least not at this stage with the crucial Bihar Assembly elections scheduled for next month. Significantly, the Sharad Pawar-led NCP(SP), another constituent of the MVA, is also not averse to taking the ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress has conveyed to the party leadership that it does not favour an alliance with the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) Sena for the upcoming local body elections - not just in Mumbai but across the state - arguing that the partnership has become counterproductive. The party is concerned that UBT Sena's outreach to Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) could alienate its north Indian and Muslim voter base, not only in Maharashtra but also in Bihar. UBT Sen ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Amid growing political speculation over her future in the cabinet, endowments minister Konda Surekha on Thursday confirmed that she has entrusted her recent concerns to the Congress high command, specifically Meenakshi Natarajan, AICC Telangana in-charge, and TPCC chief B Mahesh Kumar Goud.Speaking after a private meeting with Meenakshi at the MLA quarters, Surekha said: "I shared my thoughts and feelings in detail, and they assured me that they would coordinate everything moving forw ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The entire episode of endowments and forests minister Konda Surekha has not only become a major embarrassment to the ruling Congress government in Telangana, but has opened a pandora's box of issues happening inside the cabinet. After the late night incident of task force police personnel looking for N Sumanth, Konda Surekha's Officer on Special Duty (OSD) who was removed from service at her residence, and her daughter Sushmitha getting into an argument with the police officer; sever ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Oct 16 (Maxim News): AICC State Affairs In-charge Meenakshi Natarajan spoke to Telangana Minister Konda Surekha on the phone and advised restraint in the wake of fast-moving developments around the minister's office and family. Here To Join Us On WhatsApp She told Konda Surekha "Don't go ahead of the media.." and asked her "not to go to the media," while seeking a direct conversation to resolve the matter. It is reported that Meenakshi Natarajan asked her to "sit down and talk," in ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 16 (PTI) Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal on Thursday sought to downplay his absence from an Opposition delegation that met the State Election Commission (SEC) and maintained he was unaware of any complaint against him to the party leadership over the issue. Talking to reporters here, Sapkal noted the Congress was duly represented in the multi-party delegation of Opposition leaders and he could not accompany them due to a pre-scheduled meeting with party leadership ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Karnataka Police have arrested the man who threatened Priyank Kharge, the Minister for RDPR, IT and BT, over his proposal to ban the activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in public places. The accused was arrested in Latur, Maharashtra, on Thursday. The accused has been identified as Danappa Naroni, also known as Danesh, a resident of Solapur district in Maharashtra. The arrest was carried out in a joint operation by the Kalaburagi district ...Read More >
O J Janeesh has been appointed as the new state president of the Kerala Youth Congress following Rahul Mamkootathil's resignation over sexual abuse allegations. Binu Chulliyil is the new working president, while Abin Varkey and KM Abhijith are national secretaries. Resentment brews within Congress factions over the appointments, with a complaint planned for the high command. O J Janeesh has been appointed as the new state president of the Youth Congress, Kerala, a post that fell vacant followin ...Read More >
The Congress has decided to implead itself in the Special Leave Petition (SLP) which the Telangana government is scheduled to file in the Supreme Court challenging the Telangana High Court's recent decision to stay the implementation of 42% quota for the Backward Classes in local bodies polls. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President B. Mahesh Kumar Goud, who is in New Delhi along with Minister Vakati Srihari held wide ranging consultations with the legal experts, including Rajya S ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], October 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Jay Dholakia as its candidate for the Nuapada Assembly by-election in Odisha on Wednesday. In addition to Nuapada, the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has approved several candidates for the 2025 Assembly by-elections in various states. Agha Syed Mohsin and Sushri Devyani Rana have been selected as candidates for the Budgam and Nagrota by-elections, respectively, in Jammu and Kash ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], October 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has named Jay Dholakia as its candidate for the Nuapada Assembly by-election in Odisha on Wednesday. In addition to Nuapada, the Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has approved several candidates for the 2025 Assembly by-elections in various states. Agha Syed Mohsin and Sushri Devyani Rana have been selected as candidates for the Budgam and Nagrota by-elections, respectively, in Jammu and Kash ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Congress candidate Karanbir Singh Burj filed his nomination papers for the bypoll to Tarn Taran assembly seat on Wednesday in the presence of AICC Punjab in-charge Bhupesh Baghel, Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, leader of opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, former CM Charanjit Singh Channi and former deputy CM O P Soni.With the party putting up a united front at the nomination filing, Bajwa said the Congress represented peace and progress, while others propagated politi ...Read More >
Shimla: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday accused the Union government of not providing adequate help to disaster-hit Himachal Pradesh, claiming that the Centre was "ignoring" states ruled by the Congress. She made the remarks during a rally that followed after a statue of six-time Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh was unveiled by senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi at Daulat Singh Park on the historic Ridge Ground in Shimla. "After Sukhvinder Sukhu becam ...Read More >
Lack of further action on the summons issued by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's son, Vivek Kiran, in 2023 in connection with the LIFE Mission money-laundering case is the result of an "unholy nexus" between the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress Working Committee member Ramesh Chennithala, MLA, has said. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Mr. Chennithala said the Chief Minister's son appeared to enjoy ...Read More >
The National Democratic Alliance has announced its seat distribution for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections. BJP and JD(U) will contest 101 seats each. LJP (Ram Vilas) gets 29 seats, with RLM and HAM allocated six seats each. This agreement aims to form an NDA government in Bihar once again. Polling is scheduled for November 6 and November 11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in the national capital on Sunday to attend the Central Election ...Read More >
Mumbai, Oct 13 (PTI) The MNS wants the Congress should be taken along, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday said, indicating that the Raj Thackeray-led party could be a part of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi. Raut's remarks came amid a buzz of cousins Raj Thackeray and Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray joining hands for the upcoming local body polls in the state, though it is still unclear if the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) head will be part of the larger Opposition alliance. Respon ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, IT and BT, Priyank Kharge, on Monday defended his call to ban the public activities of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), clarifying that his father and AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge had attended an RSS event in 2002 only to warn them against creating trouble. His remarks came after the BJP circulated a photograph showing Mallikarjun Kharge at an RSS gathering in Bengaluru, accusing him of hypocrisy in light of his s ...Read More >
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